Already an experienced singer and actor when he recorded this album, Hampton began recording in 1959 and released over twenty 45s on various labels. "On the same label as Chirco, an odd singer-songwriter. (1963) I haven't heard this song, I lifted this description from the web. The sound of a coffin lid creaking open, and the chorus "I got The songĮnds with the sound of digging, then "Pay dirt!", followed by Killed, but after three months, he still misses her. He and his baby run into The Leader Of The Pack. The Genasys Team commented: "The ultimate in bad taste songs. #07) Jimmy Cross: "I Want My Baby Back" (1965) I also swiped this: "Well, we were about three miles from home Swiped this from the web somewhere: "An irreverent rocker named Jimmy Cross put an end to death songs when he recorded the parody ``I Want My Baby Back.'' Assuming the voice of a teen-age boy knocked unconscious in a wreck that claims his girlfriend, Cross intones:``When I woke up, I could see my baby over there, And over there, And waaaaaaaaay over there.'' The song ends with the grief-crazed lover disinterring his girlfriend while singing, ``I got my baby back.''"Īpparently a cover of this was banned from the BBC, "The Downliners Sect's 1965 EP, "THE SECT SING SICK SONGS" was banned for poor taste/morbidity it included a cover of Jimmy Cross' - I WANT MY BABY BACK (where a necrophiliac boyfriend digs up & jumps in his girlfriend's coffin)" The Hoodoo Gurus sort of swiped this concept later on in Dig It Up. Yeah, we have the car crash, but at the end, months later, he is digging up the grave because he wants his baby back. I Want My Baby Back - Jimmy Cross (1965). It might be this band but I don't know for sure. Of course this link seems to be dead now. Not sure about this one, since I've never heard it. I think Penelope Houston was pretty young when they wrote this. She gets the phone call that he died in a car crash. (I've been called on this one since they come from San Francisco, but this refers to any of the California style punk as opposed to English 70s stuff). Definitely the most rocking of all of these. Lyrics from the Laura Lee version.Ĭar Crash - The Avengers. Update - I have been sent the lyrics to this song.įurther update - Those lyrics seem to be a bit wrong. If anybody knows about this song, let me know. Apparently an answer song to Tell Laura I Love Her from the point of view of Laura. Tell Tommy I Miss Him - Marilyn Michaels. Showing again, the dangers of wedding rings to teens, see Teen Angel for more on that. He enters a stock car race to win money to buy her a ring, and of course it ends badly. Some more research shows this was originally written in 1962 by Wayne Cochran and also performed in the 60s by the Cavaliers. The car crashes and she dies in his arms. Recently redone by Pearl Jam in 1999, again proving the power of a good dead teen song. Last Kiss - J Frank Wilson and the Caviliers. Not really about love, unless you consider loving your car a true love sort of thing. Do you have to disclaimer everything nowaways?)Ĭars Motorcycles Trains Surfing Rivers Murder Disease Drugs War Suicide Guns Flying Other Near misses Carsĭead Man's Curve - Jan and Dean. There is plenty of cheezy music on this list, and ok a few songs that I really hate, but I do like most of the stuff on this list and some of it is pretty great. Here is a list of some of my favorites: (And I'll just add that some reader took me to task for supposedly hating 50s and 60s music and making fun of it. Wondered why the heck my inbox was full of suggestions for new songs this morning (15 Sept 2007). Wow, and MSNBC looks like they just did an article with a link to here, said I had a good sense of humor about it too. But isn't that what Web 2.0 is all about, free content that other people write for you?). And I see that CNN has recently done a story on these, although I suspect that much of it was copied from this page (notice the reference to Hoodoo Gurus which sounds a whole lot like how I described it). Some of the cheeziest (sic, yeah, I know how to spell it but I like it better that way) music ever written.Īnd this one is a nice list with some good pictures on it. (By the way, a lot of this webpage originally started back in around 1997 and has been periodically updated with new additions since then - 2009 now.) This is That has to change, and I am the one to do it. When I did a net search on dead teen songs, I didn't come up with a single Why are there so many songs about teenagers dying? It's a phenomena that I find totallyįascinating. Dead Teen Songs, you gotta love them Dead Teen Songs or Teenage Death Music or the teen death song or teen tragedy
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